Mainframe Systems Engineer III

About the role

The Mainframe Systems Engineer III candidate must have experience in one or more of the following disciplines: z/OS installation and customization, storage management, hardware configuration, networking, performance management and capacity planning, or ISV installation and customization in a Parallel Sysplex environment. The candidate must be able to complete work on time in an ever-changing and complex environment and take direction from leaders and managers. Mentoring is required in this role so mentoring skills and experience are desired. This position is part of a team that and the candidate must be willing to embrace being a team player.

Responsibilities

• Advanced or expert level SMP/E experience
• Debugging and tuning experience
• Create, document, and deliver pre- and post-implementation impacts of zSeries hardware and software
• Recognize areas of improvement leading to elimination of reoccurring issues and reduce mean time to recovery
• Provide technical direction and education to programmers, analysts and technical support associates
• Provides 24x7 on call support within a team rotation
• Facilitate deployment of tools/services by leading others in solution development, maintenance of templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation
• Confirm that application and business requirements have been translated into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to guide development and integration of technology solutions
• Contribute to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains
• Reviews and may develop software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
• Reviews and guides the evaluation of reference models, blueprints, playbooks and the execution of on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption
• Mentors and assists Infrastructure resources on infrastructure service along with application integration validation methods and tools to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines to ensure High available, secure connectivity solutions and compatibility between systems
• Write and maintain system documentation
• Responsible for matching current technology with the needs of the company

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in mainframe engineering
• 5-10 years of solid experience in z/OS engineering
• Mainview installation, maintenance and customization
• z/OS and zSeries hardware networking configuration
• Performance and capacity reporting with zPCA and/or SAS/MXG and/or Intellimagic
• zOSMF product installation and deployment
• Experience with TCP/IP configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience with storage management
• Performance management with WLM
• Reporting and planning with zPCA and/or SAS/MXG
• Independent Software Vendor installation and maintenance
• z/OS installation, customization and maintenance
• Coupling Facility updates
• ChangeMan Administration
• Managing multiple tasks and delivering on committed target dates
• Coordinates with application programmers and users to determine symptoms and ensure accurate problem resolution
• Knowledge of banking industry business processes a plus

Skills

• Strong TCP/IP and SNA/APPN problem solving and protocol skills
• Thorough understanding of Mainframe communication concepts
• Knowledge of IBM zEnterprise server hardware
• In-depth working knowledge of TCP, UDP, ICMP communications and routing protocols
• Packet trace execution and analysis
• z/OS Communication Server Policy Based Networking, and z/VM SSL Server configuration and support